An Ivy League graduate was taken into custody. Pennsylvania McDonald’s In the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a witness identified him from photos of the suspect distributed by police, a source with knowledge of the investigation told Fox News Digital.
The man, 26-year-old software engineer Luigi Mangione, had a gun and a silencer Wednesday’s shooting On his person, according to the source. He also had four fake IDs, the New York Post reported — one of them to check into an Upper West Side hostel on a suspected gunman. matches the name on the ID used for
A senior Law enforcement The official told The New York Times that Mangione filed complaints against health care companies in a handwritten document for putting profits over care.
NYPD believes UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer left New York City on a bus the morning of the shooting
Luigi Mangione pictured in a Facebook photo. Mangione was taken into custody Monday morning in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in connection with the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
NYPD believes UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer left New York City on a bus the morning of the shooting
Mangione was working on a laptop at the Altoona fast-food location — a police source told Fox News that digital surveillance footage showed a person of interest using a laptop at a New York McDonald’s before Wednesday’s shooting. was caught, and that “eyebrows were matching.[ed]”
Police sources said a witness alerted the police after allegedly recognizing the man’s face from the wanted posters around 9:15 am.
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Luigi Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
Mangione was taken to the Altoona Police Department, which did not return Fox News Digital’s requests for comment by press time. He was arrested on unrelated charges, the department wrote in a press release.
A source at the scene said NYPD officials have not yet arrived at the Pennsylvania department.
Altoona is a city located 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
Mangione, of Towsom, MD, was valedictorian of his Baltimore preschool class of 2016, according to the school newspaper, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in engineering and computer science, according to his LinkedIn.
A screenshot of surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows a person of interest wanted in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. is (NYPD Crime Stoppers)
He is a software developer who founded TrueCar Inc., according to his LinkedIn. Worked for the last four years.
Law enforcement sources told the Post that the online activity shows that Mangion subscribes to anti-capitalist and anti-climate change causes and shows his disdain for the state of health care in the United States.
Mangione’s Goodreads account reveals that his literary interests range from Socrates to Aldous Huxley to the writings of Unibomber Ted Kaczynski.
With the handle @luigi.from.fiji, Mangione’s social media also indicates that he currently resides in Hawaii.
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Thompson was shot three times outside the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The shooting suspect was last seen at the Port Authority bus station in upper Manhattan.
Mangione has not yet been named by law enforcement as Thompson’s shooter.